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sit·ar

(sĭt′är′, sĭ-tär′)

A stringed instrument of India having a seasoned gourd for a body and a hollow wooden neck with movable raised frets. Stretched over the frets are usually 6 or 7 metal strings on which the melody is played with a pick, and stretched under the frets are 11 or more sympathetic resonating strings.

[Hindi sitār, from Persian : si, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + tār, string; see ten- in Indo-European roots.]

si·tar′ist n.

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sitar

sittar

(Instruments) a stringed musical instrument, esp of India, having a long neck, a rounded body, and movable frets. The main strings, three to seven in number, overlie other sympathetic strings, the tuning depending on the raga being performed

[from Hindi sitār, literally: three-stringed]

siˈtarist n

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si•tar

(sɪˈtɑr)

n.

a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.

[1835–45; < Hindi sitār]

si•tar′ist, n.

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sitar - a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

stringed instrument - a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound

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Sitar

sitar

[sɪˈtɑːʳ] N → sitar m

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sitar

[sɪˈtɑː^r ˈsɪtɑː^r] n (= musical instrument) → sitar m

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sitar

n → Sitar m

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sitar

[sɪˈtɑːʳ] n → sitar m inv

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The voices of early evening had settled down to one soothing hum whose deepest note was the steady chumping of the bullocks above their chopped straw, and whose highest was the tinkle of a Bengali dancing-girl's sitar. Most men had eaten and pulled deep at their gurgling, grunting hookahs, which in full blast sound like bull-frogs.

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